The April 6 election promises to bring some changes to Wisconsin courts. The ballot presents contested races for two of Wisconsin’s four Courts of Appeals and 11 contested circuit-court races.

Brown County Circuit Judge Kendall Kelley has been assigned to review whether to pursue contempt findings against nine people involved with a now-closed investigation into Gov. Scott Walker.

Ten defendants have completed the Rock County Veterans Treatment Court program in the three years since the court’s founding, and not one has reoffended.

This month’s Wisconsin Law Journal print edition's cover story about veterans courts has lots of information, but glaringly lacks the answer to the most important question: Are veterans courts successful?

In August 2011, Christopher McNulty stood in his girlfriend’s Sturgeon Bay garage, a 22-caliber rifle in his hands and local police outside the door.

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) – Judges in Brown County are working to establish a special court for military veterans. Judge Kendall Kelley said that in some cases military veteran offenders are more in need of treatment than prison. Kelley said the goal is to find the most effective way of dealing with the mental health issues that can plague veterans, ...